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JBB’s Media
Spelling Out a Few Things
DailyRandomShit for 2016-06-08 I don’t exactly agree with every point of this essay, but LaMonte M. Fowler pretty much spells out many of my thoughts… One of my biggest feelings is that if your largest effort is on complaining and/or blaming others and not in finding solutions I’m pretty much done with all of the […]
MoreHow The News Is Made
I generally only watch TV news when I happen to be have the TV on or am interest in the latest hurricane heading my way. I also tend to get the news I’m interested in via Twitter and my RSS feeds delivered to my iPad. So when the video below crossed my horizon I was […]
MoreThe King of Kong & the Ongoing Myth of Objective Documentary Films
This past summer I saw the critically acclaimed documentary, “King of Kong” at the inaugural meeting of a Full Sail documentary film club. Great film. When one of my fellow film viewers confessed that he wanted to punch the antagonist, Billy Mitchell, in the mouth and everyone in the room agree; it was clear that […]
MoreIs the “Texting While Driving” PSA Too Graphic?
CNET’s Technically Incorrect blog, asked the question about whether makers of the following public service announcement (PSA) went too far depicting the dangers of texting while driving. If one views the video on a “surface” level, there’s nothing here that hasn’t been shown on most American televisions. My guess is that the uproar is this […]
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Kutiman-Thru-you – 06 – Wait For Me
I’ve posted this video/artist before: “Mother of all funk-chords,” I’m just glad that his videos are available on YouTube (once again). Check out his non-Remix stuff on iTunes: Kutiman
MoreRoll Over Beethoven and Copy… Right!
Part of my course at Full Sail is about media issues, you know, stuff like Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons. The “M” in our program title (EMDT) is Media and my students, who are in their ninth month of a year long Masters degree program, are expected to stare down this huge subject and […]
MoreWorld Music – nomadak tx
Cultural Anthropologist, Michael Wesch, offered up the following video as a follow-up video mash-up to the viral hit collection “Thru-U” by Kutiman: It has potential, but seems much less “manufactured” than the Kutiman collection, and a bit less attention to detail, particularly some of the mismatched rhythm tracks. The preceding analysis of course completely misses […]
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